Word: bankers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Francis Vollmer religiously repeats "I am a banker" 50 times every day, he only begins to get rapid promotions after the bank president has exposed himself on two separate occasions before Francis' wife. When the bank president commits suicide, Francis is so close to the top that he can hush up the scandal with his left hand while his right hand is slipping $450,000 in crisp bills into manila envelopes destined for a Swiss numbered account...
...very rich are Beverly Hills' Trousdale Estates, where homes cost from $100,000 to $300,000, and Hancock Park, an old area of the central city that has been restored to extraordinary elegance. In Hancock Park, in stately mansions set on handsomely landscaped grounds, live Industrialist Norton Simon, Banker Howard Ahmanson and Norman Chandler, president of the Times Mirror...
...Chevrolet?") Only last June Damon came out with Bankcardchek, an imaginative new system combining revolving credit, traveler's checks and a checking account. The first to applaud Damon's promotion was Predecessor Brace, who said: "He is far from the orthodox, pedestrian type of banker. He is a nonroutine thinker...
Died. Charles M. Goethe, 91, California banker-turned-conservationist who made a fortune in real estate before he was 30, and spent the rest of his life using it to help protect the nation's natural beauty, making heavy donations to the infant National Park Serv ice from 1919 to 1923 to help preserve Yosemite's rugged splendor, later became a leader in the fight to save California's diminishing redwoods; of bronchial pneumonia; in Sacramento, Calif...
...famed banking house of Baring Brothers. The O'Brien appointment was calculated to offend neither the financial community of "the City," which would have resented the traditional selection of a Treasury aide, nor Labor's obstreperous left wing, which would have been unhappy with a private banker. O'Brien, who likes to play tennis on weekends at his Wimbledon district home, aimed his first shots toward midcourt. "We are the executants of monetary and exchange policy," he said. "But monetary questions cannot be isolated from the rest of the economy...